Banana Uniforms

September 30th, 2006

yesterday, i was looking through some of my old blogposts at the tripod blog. while reading, i came across this one post i wrote in August last year, when i was still in high school. i remember while writing that post, i was just so filled with a deep sense of oracular nostalgia. it was a big rush of emotion - like all the wistfulness i would feel in the future when reminiscing about my classmates and our schooldays, was concentrated on that very moment.

this is the post :

i’m a spoilt girl. a very pampered girl, who DOES realize that she has many security blankets in life. when i leave form5, all those security blankets are gonna be ripped off me, and when i think about that happening, i feel like just clinging on to that stupid yellow pillar in the school foyer that i walked into and apologised to sometime 3 years ago, and never letting go.

tis funny. just a month ago i was telling sieutheng how i cant wait to finish school and be rid of all the crap sri garden makes u endure.

i will so freaking struggle in college. what am i gonna do without AIRA?! who’s gonna tell me what homework there was? who’s gonna, like, wake me up when i sleep during class? who’s gonna set me back on the right path when i stray away?! argghgghgh!! aiiiiiraaa, dont leave me …!!

and jovann. what will i do without him! i will never have lunch money like for ever. and i will have no scratching post when he’s not here :( no jovann, no bitchy gossip too. life will be so much more bleaker. besides, who will discuss with me the right Chanel facial cleanser to use, and who will tell me when Zara is having a sale?! every girl needs her metrosexual best friend for fashion and beauty advice.

of course there is mah beloved frog, sieutheng. without her, i will never feel physically wanted ever again. no one will molest me the way she does. sniff. and she’s the only lala i know who can take all lala-bashing-inclined verbal abuse with an open heart. losing her also means losing a confidante :(

4 Of Them + 4 Of Us

to the ‘4 Of Them’ — rebecca, sze yin, christine, bev — what are the 4 Of Us without you girls! let’s hookup with The Other Two and go out for a 4+4+2 thing one day before school ends. sy, i will miss ur bitchiness — you make gossip that little bit more fascinating. rebecca, i’ll always remember you as the cutest blurrest girl in the world. christine, u’re really noisy sometimes but that’s what makes u cool. you’re the life of wherever u go. beverly, my sleeping-in-class partner in crime … the only other person in the world who understands the dire need to shut your eyes when a teacher is at the front of the class.

wai min, wai min. my inspiration in all that i do, and the younger sister i never had. let’s never grow apart.

i bet college life has no popcorn-couples. annjoeanddarren, chaoyingandhaowkang, jinhangandshushen — i will miss watching you guys fight! i’ll miss telling y’all to get a room.

freddy ……….. our 1 year anniversary is coming up soon, hahahaha. i know you know what i’m talking about.

justin. i have a confession to make — i think you have the nicest smile in the world. here’s another — i secretly look at you a lot. because you’re sooo cute.

and my wacky girl patricia. i’m glad you came to sri garden this year. it’s nice to have another net-addict in class, who blogs and makes LJ icons and visits potterpuppetpals.com as well ;) you’re totally awesome. and one of a kind.

i just have to leave Mole Boy till last. when you first came to ssg, i thought you were this really shy, quiet boy who runs away at the sight of a girl. you were so SHY and SCARED when we first started talking! and omg, look at you now. perasan muka tak malu boy. and ergh, stop getting straight a’s!! it’s so annoying!!

the class

it’s 7.20 now and i think i better go do my homework before i get a fail for my forecast. ah, homework. there’s something i wont miss when i finish school.

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it’s a little over one year since i wrote that post. at that time, i was so convinced that once high school ends and we start college, we’d all go our separate ways and barely communicate. i am SO GLAD to find that now, one year later, that’s not true at all. if anything, a lot of us are closer to each other despite meeting up less. looks like my oracular nostalgia was not very oracular, hehe not that i’m complaining.

the differences now - aira is away in UTP Perak studying chem engineering and we almost never see her. annjoe and darren, aka Couple Most Likely To Get Married, have split .. and so have chaoying and haowkang. jinhang and shushen are still together though - they’re the new Couple Most Likely To Get Married now! i havent seen patricia in forever, and Mole Boy is far away in canada.

what has not changed - i still look at justin a lot. hahaha.

today a bunch of us met up at Darren’s place for a little mooncake festival gathering! most people couldnt turn up cos bloody Darren lives in the middle of nowhere … so at first i was quite bummed about it. but then five minutes into the evening, i was really glad that there were only 8 of us instead of the pre-planned 15. conversation was so much nicer and comfy and warmer that way. it was a lurvely night :)

… even though i wasnt allowed to eat mooncakes and darren’s famous banana cake -_- haha my friends are so cool. they’re even stricter with me about Project Puasa than i am!!!

anyways, pictures!

slices of mooncakes! :( i could only pose with them and take pics of them, sniff.

ivan and i

penguin and i!

the boys

The Four Of Us minus aira :(

with darren, Mr Nice Guy of the Century and Mr I Live Too Damn Far Away From Civilization

top row l-r : freddy, justin, ivan, me, jovann. bottom row l-r : ben, sieutheng, darren

aira, faster come back so we can take a 4+1 pic!

ben being emo

umbrellas hate ben

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